The New South Africa - The Same Old Bondage

A Commentary on the Demise of South Africa

In the mid to late 1980's, political
violence and repression in South Africa was featured regularly on the
evening news. International pressure against the white government was
brought to bear in the form of embargoes and sanctions, resulting in
political reforms and the election of Nelson Mandela as State
President. Now that apartheid is forever abolished and a new
constitution establishing "equality" is ratified, is the quality of
life any better for South Africans of all colors?

The old South African system of apartheid
has been well documented by many capable and objective authors. It is
not this author's purpose to examine apartheid, but to examine the
fruits of democracy and decide if life has gotten better for the
oppressed now that they can vote.

An Increase in Crime,
Unemployment and AIDS

Crime has been a part of life in South
Africa over the past several decades, but in recent years, especially
since the African National Congress (ANC) was voted into power, there
has been a steady flow of reports indicating a dramatic rise in
violent crime. Statistics reveal that in 1994, the year of the ANC
victory, South Africa became the rape capital of the world with about
99.7 reported rapes per 100,000 people. This included child rape
which has increased 108% since 1993. (Johannesburg Star).

The U.S. had 39.2 reported rapes per
100,000 for the same period, with Germany reporting 7.5. One of four
females, including children, living in black townships are likely to
be raped this year with Soweto township reporting 200 rapes every
month. Rape crisis centers estimate that only one in 35 rapes is
likely to be reported and, if that ratio is accurate, it would
reflect that 809,404 rapes occurred in South Africa in 1994. (Figures
obtained from The Star and the
Mail
& Guardian newspapers).

South Africa has one of the highest murder
rates in the world with Johannesburg possessing the distinction of
"murder capital" of the world. Ninety out of every 100,000 persons
will be murdered this year in South Africa. Often murders are
committed in conjunction with rape and robbery. Inadequate record
keeping and under reporting has hindered efforts to properly assess
the acceleration of violence. (The Star and the Mail Guardian ).

South Africa's government has blamed the
wave of crime on unemployment. South Africa is also the unemployment
capital of the world, with one out of three workers unemployed and
40% of black men out of work.
(U.S. News & World Report ) . Economic
factors have helped to create an atmosphere of despair, resulting in
an unprecedented wave of crime.

AIDS is another plague on the rise in
South Africa. It is reported that 14% of all pregnant women are
infected with aids and that 2.4 million South Africans are HIV
positive, up 33% from last year's count of 1.8 million. Sexual
assault and promiscuity, the results of breaking down the social
order, has hastened the spread of this deadly disease. (The Star
and the Mail & Guardian ).

American Apartheid - Only Looks Better

Why has democracy failed to bring about
the bright promises of those proclaiming "the new South Africa"?
Where is the material prosperity promised by the lifting of
sanctions, the "car in every garage and a chicken in every pot"
fruition of this international campaign to "free South Africa"? One
might be inclined to wonder if many South Africans look back with
nostalgia to the old days of the old order.

The word "apartheid" literally means
"apart-ness" and in South Africa these boundaries establishing
"apart-ness" were drawn along officially defined racial lines and
codified by law. Only people of European decent were allowed to vote,
with limited representation being granted to Asians and those of
mixed race later on. Supporters of apartheid have stated that this
arrangement is necessary because of the unique racial make-up of the
country, and that integration of all races in a common society would
not guarantee peace, freedom and prosperity for all.

Even while the international community
worked itself into a self-righteous fit over South Africa's system of
apartheid, it failed to recognize that it, too, was living within a
system of "apart-ness". America's system of segregation, for example,
is most clearly seen in the realm of material possessions. How much
money you possess determines where you may live, who you may
associate with, and what kind of legal representation you get when
accused of a crime, etc. In America our version of apartheid is
called "class".

American apartheid is also practiced
within the realm of thought or belief. If you say you go to church,
for example, you will be asked, "which denomination?" in order that
you may be classified and segregated into an officially defined
group. If you apply for a job in a profession such as teaching or
journalism, your views could be brought under intense scrutiny. If
you profess to believe in absolutes, or even fail to exhibit adequate
enthusiasm for the dogma of the ruling "class", you very well could
be segregated out of a job and, hence, the privilege of making a
living. American apartheid is far more oppressive than the South
African brand, in that it is concealed and painted over to be the
opposite of what it is.

When all South Africans were permitted to
vote, they
traded in their old model of apartheid for the American brand. Even
though racial segregation has been scrapped and every one can vote, a
majority of black South Africans are still living in the same squalid
townships as they did under the old regime, with the exception that
now the circumstances are far more distressing. In the old days they
feared the police and didn't have the liberty to demonstrate or join
the political movement of their choice. Now they can demonstrate and
join a political party, but they also have oppressors that are far
more deadly than the white policemen of the old order. Hunger, want,
assaults on life, person and property by marauding criminals who have
no fear of punishment - - these elements existed under apartheid, but
not to the extent that they now do under "democracy".

Democracy - The Modern Method of Control

It is the white, Afrikaans-speaking
population that controlled the ruling Nationalist party under
apartheid, and it is the Afrikaaner that has been the nemesis of
British imperial rule in southern Africa over the past two centuries.
Primarily of Dutch decent, the Afrikaaner has been called anything
from "fiercely independent" to "bull-headed, racist and
ultra-conservative." Not prone to entangling alliances or diplomatic
niceties, the Boer (Afrikaaner) has posed a significant threat to the
designs of internationalists seeking to subdue the African continent
for their own profit. South Africa, with its rich gold, diamond,
platinum and strategic mineral deposits, was at the top of the list.
Since an outright military assault to overthrow the white-ruled
government might raise a few eyebrows, it became necessary to subdue
this nation by another means, more sophisticated but surer of lasting
results. Thus a campaign was begun to bring "freedom and democracy"
to South Africa.

Neighboring Rhodesia, which was also
guilty of neglecting the one person, one vote democratic system,
didn't provoke the indignation of the international community until
it declared its independence from Britain on November 11, 1965. On
that same day, the United Nations Security Council branded Rhodesia
"a threat to international peace and security", even though Rhodesia
had never threatened its neighbors or had the capacity to do so. Soon
afterward, President Johnson slapped an economic embargo on that
country (seeThe United Nations Conspiracy by Robert W. Lee).
It must be noted that Rhodesia's crime, as was South Africa's, was
not its racial policies or political system, but its "go it alone"
tendency in a world that was becoming more and more "interdependent"
(whether it liked it or not).

A Change in the Political Winds (or so it seems)

The current policies of government in
South Africa do not reflect the personal political philosophies of
Nelson Mandela or the ANC leadership. For years Mandela's staunchest
supporters were hard line communists and it was his stated goal to
nationalize key industries such as mining, should he come to power.

A couple of years before his release from
prison in 1990, the South African government began implementing a
policy of privatization. Public highways, the state owned transport
services, and other publicly owned entities were passing into private
hands. This was in compliance with the demands of the World Bank who
was servicing South African debt and was making similar demands of
other Third World debtor nations.

When Mandela was released from prison, he
changed his tune from nationalization to privatization. When he was
elected State President in 1994, there was a seamless transition
between the white-ruled government and his own in regards to economic
policy. It was evident that Mandela had undergone a pre-election
conversion.

With the death of communism in the world,
it was evident that the communist ANC was going to have to change its
appearance to fit in with the "New South Africa" and the emerging
"New World Order". A new ANC emerged that supported the "free market"
system and other "progressive" policies, but Joe Slovo, a leading
South African communist leader, recognized that socialism had merely
changed its exterior, perhaps to placate the fears of the white
minority. "We say loud and clear that history has not ended (for
communism)....The corpse they are trying to bury is not true
socialism" he proclaimed at the party's Eighth National Congress,
Dec. 1991 (Chained Together by David Ottaway). This was about
the time Gorbachev was signing away the "old" Soviet Union.

More Than Getting to Vote

The "new" ANC's economic policies were not
the only things being molded and shaped after the new order of
things. So were its social policies. Abortion on demand is one of the
pillars of this renovated socialism and, after the ANC took power in
'94, agitation for abortion rights began in earnest. Abortion was
strictly illegal in the old South Africa except to save a mother's
life until the recent Termination of Pregnancy law was passed. Now
abortions may be performed on up to full term pregnancies, under
certain conditions.

Just a few weeks after abortion was
legalized in January, 1997 by the ANC government, the South African
Department of Health issued a shocking directive. The Mail &
Guardian reported, "Babies who survive abortion attempts should
be left to die even as they gasp for breath, according to new
guidelines for the termination of pregnancy laid out by the
Department of Health, and sent to all major hospitals last week...."
(3-27-97). The directive itself reads, "if an infant is born who
gasps for breath, it is advised that the fetus does not receive any
resuscitation measures." This order is in line with the general trend
toward infanticide as practiced in China, the U.S. and promoted
worldwide under the auspices of the United Nation's population
control program.

This same directive lamented the fact that
more than half of South Africa's health professionals refused to
participate in the abortion procedure, and hinted that botched home
abortions might force reluctant doctors to get involved to save the
mother's life. It is evident that abortion will not long be a matter
of choice for health care professionals, as is already the case with
ANC members of parliament. Jennifer Ferguson, an ANC MP whose
religious beliefs would not allow her to vote in favor of the
Termination of Pregnancy bill, faced expulsion from the ANC after she
abstained from the vote. "Essentially the political climate in this
place is intolerant of true democracy," she was later quoted as
saying in the Mail & Guardian (3-27-97).

This new age system of socialism would not
be complete without "death on demand", and the new ANC has taken the
first steps in legalizing euthanasia in the "New" South Africa. Draft
legislation has been released by the Law Commission recommending new
legislation allowing so-called "passive euthanasia "- the withholding
of life support or life-saving treatment to a terminally ill patient.
Active euthanasia - the deliberate killing of a patient with a drug
overdose - is also being considered, but stiff opposition is
requiring a gradualist approach to legalizing and implementing it.

Another item on the ANC agenda is the
promotion of homosexuality. South Africa's new Constitution prohibits
the discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, which makes
outlaws out of churches that refuse to ordain homosexuals or accept
them as members. Most churches have made it clear they will not
compromise on this issue. "The general worldwide trend is not to
allow government to dictate to churches," Wits University law
lecturer and human rights specialist, Tsepho Mosikatsana, told the
Mail & Guardian , "but our Constitution goes further than
any other in that the spirit of equality in it would prohibit
churches from excluding gays and lesbians." He went on to say, "I
find a great deal of support in this document for the fact that
churches may no longer exclude homosexuals from becoming members or
even clergy." Interpreted this means that any person who believes in
a literal interpretation of the Bible may have to go underground in
order to worship according to his or her conscience. This issue will
soon be tested before South Africa's Constitutional Court.

The Tyranny of Imported "Rights"

Most South Africans and the rest of the
world were under the illusion that when the ANC came to power, it
meant that the majority of South Africans would now be free to
control their own destiny. This is a cruel hoax. Even from its
beginning, black protest bore the markings of foreign origin.
Communist dogma, union organization, strikes, boycotts, and now this
new age world socialism, burdened with its culture of death and
myriad so-called rights, have not had their origin with the ANC
leadership, but have been imported into South Africa by hundreds of
different channels, all originating in the realms of international
finance and control. These channels include the globalist think
tanks, headquartered in the U.S. and the U.K., who were responsible
for shaping the fine points of the ANC platform for the '94 elections
and for influencing the policy of the South African government since
the elections, just as they do in the U.S.

"Top US aid agency accused of meddling in SA political
issues" reads an article in a December, '96 issue of the Cape
Argus newspaper in South Africa. The U.S. government's Agency for
International Development (U.S. AID) has been the target of criticism
in the U.S. Congress for using hundreds of millions of development
dollars to direct the course of South African government policy. "
AID has chosen all the wedge issues of South African politics" while
not involving itself in the kind of routine development projects it
carries out in other countries, according to a House Regulations
Committee quoted by Cape Argus . "The agency has been involved
in intensely political and controversial interventions in South
Africa's domestic affairs," Cape Argus said, including "
trying to shape the affirmative action agenda; forcing whites out of
projects funded by the agency; attempting to influence and direct
domestic political decisions; and making direct demands on the South
African government for policy changes in projects AID has decided to
support." U.S. foreign aid is one of the conduits used by
internationalists to import subversion and instability into South
Africa.

Like the rest of Africa after liberation,
the majority of black South Africans continue to groan under the most
abject poverty and all the curses that come with it. Many blacks grew
up in the era of protest against apartheid which included boycotting
government schools, resulting in one-half of black adults being
illiterate. Strikes, protests and obstructionist behavior by blacks
were praised by the international community under apartheid, and now
those tactics remain the only tools they possess to deal with the
problems of life now that apartheid is gone. Rather than deal with a
work force that is unskilled, unruly and prone to unionized
disruption, companies buy modern machinery or send their factories
into Asia or Central America. The emerging global economy is
siphoning off whatever material benefits the blacks hoped to obtain
when they got to vote. Democracy has become a cruel reality for them.

White South Africans had hoped that in
granting political concessions they would win the acceptance of the
international community. Economic sanctions would be lifted and
commerce would flourish once again. They are finding, however, that
democracy means more than universal suffrage. It means the erasing of
their Christian-based culture and replacing it with a post-Christian
pagan culture and everything that comes with it - crime, fear,
economic and political upheaval, and a gnawing uncertainty for life
itself. The price for this so-called "freedom" increases day by day.

Whatever the crimes of the old South
African regime, they are no worse than those of the Communist Chinese
government which enjoys Most Favored Nation trading status with the
U.S. In 1960, 69 blacks were killed by South African police bullets
in what is called the "Sharpeville Massacre", an event that touched
off international indignation and violent protest in South Africa.
Fewer died in Sharpeville than died at the hands of the U.S.
government near Waco, Texas in 1993, or the Red Chinese army in
Tiananmen Square in 1989, yet there is no official outcry over those
events because human rights are not the object. Control and
domination by the world's ruling elite is the true motivation.

South Africans will now experience the
results of their capitulation to international pressures and the
falsity of the "liberation gospel" peddled by Anglican priests,
American human rights activists, and other meddlesome carpet baggers.
Instead of obtaining the illusory lifestyles dangled before them by
American movies and television shows, they will experience the ever
deepening slavery forced on all those who have sold themselves to the
international system of finance and control. It is now too late for
them to turn back the flood of confusion that has overwhelmed them.

South Africa, "ye
have sold yourselves for nought...."

[The author lived in South Africa during the first
two years of F.W. de Klerk's government.]

Written 5/97

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